Sun and StoneThe rocky slopes of northwest Greenland’s Daugaard-Jensen Land glow gold from the morning sun. The photo was taken from a Falcon 20 plane by Operation IceBridge, a NASA mission mapping changes to Arctic ice with aircraft.
Photograph courtesy DMS Team & NASA DAAC, The National Snow and Ice Data Center

Week’s Best Space Pictures: Frozen Fractals Crisscross Mars

Earth majestically rises over the moon’s dark side and the International Space Station spots a desert megacity.

ByMichael Greshko
January 1, 2016

Feed your need for heavenly views of the universe with our pick of the most awe-inspiring space pictures. This week, a celestial collision births a new galaxy, frosty cracks branch across a Martian crater, and Saturn’s moon Dione shows off its wispy surface.

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